Last year,
I woke up
in a hotel room
in Amsterdam.
There was
a woman
in my bed.
I looked
in the mirror
and saw
that my eyebrows
were gray.
I saw
that I was
forty.
Painter Alexander Melamid, quoted in Forty-One False Starts by Janet Malcolm (Granta Books, 2014). Submitted by Howie Good.
Verbatim Poetry 